About a year ago I stopped making regular updates to this blog to concentrate on my Namnesia Antidote blog. While that is an ongoing effort, I am starting what should be about a year long effort to revitalize the concept of a "This Day in History" blog. I have decided to leave this blog intact and as-is, using a new "This Day in History 2.0" blog for my expanded and full version. Please feel free to email with your ideas. The two tables below should allow you to find a posting for the "Day in History" you wish to research.

Thursday, November 01, 2007

November 1......

November 1 is the 305th (306th in leap years) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 60 days remaining in the year on this date.

Best Liberal Quote of the Day: On Insanity "The Only people for me are the mad ones. The ones who are mad to love, mad to talk, mad to be saved; the ones who never yawn or a say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow Roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." — Jack Kerouac

Stupidest and/or Scariest Quote from the Right for the Day: On Compassionate Conservatism "Part of the reason he [Minnesota Republican Gov. Arne Carlson] hasn't gone is that he doesn't want to get in the way. It may be a good place to get media attention, but it's not helpful to be parading around on the sandbags." — Brian Dietz, Carlson's press secretary, offering an explanation for why the governor had not visited the flooded towns on the Minnesota side of the Red River. Dane Smith, "Where's Arne? Some Victims Are Asking," Minneapolis Star-Tribune, 4-21-97.

Dumbest Thing Said for the Day: From Politics "This is unparalyzed in the state's history." — Gib Lewis, Texas Speaker of the House

{Disclaimer: I have attempted to give credit to the many different sources that I get entries. Any failure to do so is unintentional. Any statement enclosed by brackets like these are the opinion of the blogger, A Proud Liberal.}

NASA ASTRONOMY PICTURE OF THE DAY

Peculiar Arp 87

Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI / AURA)Click picture to go to NASA APOD site for full explanation

EVENTS

● 996 - Emperor Otto III issues a deed to Gottschalk, Bishop of Freising, which is the oldest known document using the name Ostarrîchi (Austria in Old High German).

● 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

● 1520 - The Strait of Magellan, the passage immediately south of mainland South America, connecting the Pacific and the Atlantic Oceans, is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan during his global circumnavigation voyage.

● 1592 - At the Battle of Busan, the outnumbered Korean navy defeats a larger Japanese army.

● 1612 - (22 October O.S.) Time of Troubles in Russia: Moscow, Kitai-gorod, is captured by Russian troops under command of Dmitry Pozharsky

● 1683 - The British crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.

● 1765 - The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.

● 1790 - Edmund Burke publishes Reflections on the Revolution in France, in which he predicts that the French Revolution will end in a disaster.

● 1797 - First African Free School established in New York.

● 1800 - US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).

● 1802 - Delegates meet at Chillicothe, Ohio to form a state constitutional convention.

● 1805 - Napoleon Bonaparte invades Austria during the War of the Third Coalition.

● 1814 - Congress of Vienna opens to re-draw the European political map after the defeat of France, in the Napoleonic Wars.

● 1836 - Seminole Indian resistance to forced removal from Florida begins. Led by Osceola, they begin attacks to protest/prevent removal. The unpopular war ended in August 1842, with the Indians force-marched to Oklahoma. Fifteen hundred U.S. soldiers lost their lives in the six-year war.

● 1848 - In Boston, Massachusetts, the first medical school for women, The Boston Female Medical School (which later merged with the Boston University School of Medicine), opens.

● 1859 - The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.

● 1861 - American Civil War: US President Abraham Lincoln appoints George B. McClellan as the commander of the Union Army, replacing the aged General Winfield Scott.

● 1896 - A picture showing the unclad (bare) breasts of a woman appears in National Geographic magazine for the first time. {This practice would continue but would never be of white women, only "native" women of color are subject to exposure.}

● 1910 - The first edition of "Crisis" magazine is published by the NAACP with W.E.B. Du Bois as its editor.

● 1910 - Barcelona - Founding congress of the anarchist trade union C.N.T (Confederacion Nacional de Trabajo). Quickly became the largest and most important union in Spain, it plays a leading role in responding to the attempted takeover of the country by fascist military forces under Franco in 1936. Still going.

● 1911 - The first dropping of a bomb from an airplane in combat, during the Italo-Turkish War.

● 1914 - World War I: the first British Royal Navy defeat of the war with Germany, the Battle of Coronel, is fought off of the western coast of Chile, in the Pacific.

● 1916 - Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.

● 1918 - Western Ukraine gains its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

● 1919 - More than 400,000 miners across the U.S. go on strike. Pres. Woodrow Wilson will declare the nationwide strike unlawful. A federal injunction sequesters the union strike fund and prohibits union leaders from taking any action in support of the strike. Federal troops enter the minefields of Utah, Washington, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. For nearly a month, coal miners ignore union orders to cancel the strike. In Kansas, mine owners use college students for labor. In Montana, federal troops force miners back to work, and North Dakota takes over the mines under martial law. The miners reluctantly return to work when Wilson orders an immediate 14-percent wage increase and establishes an arbitration commission.

● 1922 - The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.

● 1928 - The Law on the Adoption and Implementation of the Turkish Alphabet, replacing the version of the Arabic alphabet previously used, comes into force in Turkey.

● 1950 - Pope Pius XII witnesses "The Miracle of the Sun" while at the Vatican.

● 1950 - Pope Pius XII claims Papal Infallibility when he formally defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.

● 1951 - American soldiers are exposed to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, Nevada. Participation was not voluntary.

● 1952 - Operation Ivy - The United States successfully detonates the first large hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" ["M" for megaton], in the Eniwetok atoll, located in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean. The explosion had a yield of 10 megatons. This is equivalent to 700 Hiroshima bombs.

● 1954 - The Front de Libération Nationale fires the first shots of the Algerian War of Independence.

● 1955 - The bombing of United Airlines Flight 629 occurs.

● 1956 - Formation of Indian state of Andhra Pradesh with its capital as Hyderabad, formerly known as Nizam state.

● 1956 - Formation of the Indian state of Karnataka (1973), formerly known as Mysore State.

● 1956 - Formation of Kerala state in India.

● 1957 - The Mackinac Bridge, the world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages at the time, opens to traffic connecting Michigan's upper and lower peninsulas.

● 1960 - While campaigning for President of the United States, John F. Kennedy announces his idea of the Peace Corps.

● 1961 - Pushed through by the Kennedys, Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) bans segregation on interstate buses and their facilities. Protest demonstrations erupt throughout the South. {They take the form of we are bigots and proud of it, "The South shall rise again."}

● 1961 - Fifty thousand women join in protests in at least 60 U.S. cities against resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, leading to founding of Women Strike for Peace.

● 1963 - South Vietnamese military junta, getting an OK from the U.S., assassinates U.S.-installed President Ngo Dinh Diem. {He made the fatal error of saying he thought there might be accommodation the North.}

● 1963 - The Arecibo Observatory in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, with the largest radio telescope ever constructed, officially opens.

● 1969 - San Francisco American Indian Center burns down, precipitating the 19-month Native American occupation of Alcatraz Island.

● 1970 - Detroit City Council votes for immediate withdrawal from Vietnam.

● 1970 - A fire at a dance hall in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 144 young people.

● 1973 - Watergate Scandal: Leon Jaworski is appointed as the new Watergate Special Prosecutor.

● 1973 - The Indian state of Mysore was renamed as Karnataka to represent the all the regions within Karunadu.

● 1979 - Federal government announces $1.5 billion loan-guarantee plan to aid the nation's third largest automaker, Chrysler Corporation, which reported a loss of $460.6 million for the third quarter. {This was the start of corporate welfare; however Chrysler did pay back the entire loan with interest and the cost to taxpayers was zero.}

● 1981 - Antigua and Barbuda gain independence from the United Kingdom.

● 1986 - Rhine River disaster - 30 tons of mercury and pesticides wash into the river during a fight against a fire at Sandoz AG warehouse in Basel, Switzerland; several days later, Ciba-Geigy admits it "accidentally" released 900 pounds of pesticide into the river hours before.

● 1991 - Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.

● 1993 - All Serbian men liable for conscription forbidden to leave the country.

● Roman Catholic:● Holy Day of Obligation, All Saints Day.● St. Amabilis● St. Austremonius● St. Cadfan● St. Caesarius & Companions● St. Ceitho● Sts. Cyrenia & Juliana● St. Dingad● St. Floribert● St. Jerome Hermosilla● Sts. John & James● St. Julian● St. Licinius● St. Mary the Slave● St. Mathurin● St. Pabiali● St. Salaun● St. Severinus● St. Valentine Berrio-Ochoa● St. Vigor● Bl. Paul Navarro● Bl. Peter Onizuko

● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for October 16 (Civil Date: November 1)● Martyr Longinus the Centurion who stood at the Cross of the Lord● St. Malus the hermit.● St. Eupraxia, abbess, before tonsure Princess Euphrosyne of Pskov.● St. Longinus the gate keeper of the Kiev Caves.● St. Gall, Enlightener of Switzerland.

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